UNITING THE BUILT & NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS

This week Chicago Public Radio’s program “Worldview” interviewed Marcus De La Fleur, ASLA, about how he convinced his landlord to improve his rental home’s stormwater management. De La Fleur’s design hits all the major stormwater management points: removal of old pavement and turf lawn and replacement with rain gardens, gravel grass, porous pavement and rooftop gardens. The story also provides a good answer to the question of “what is a landscape architect?”